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Crawford: Filmmaker David Modigliani on Bush-Era Political Stagecraft (Watch the Movie in Full Here!)

Brad Listi | Posted 10.13.2008 | Home

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A hit on the festival circuit, Modigliani's film offers a poignant view of the small Texas town that was transformed overnight when George W. Bush bought his 1,500-acre ranch on Prairie Chapel Road back in 1999.

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Cindy Sheehan Bugged in Denver

Rob Kall | Posted 08.25.2008 | Politics

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Cindy Sheehan returned to her Denver hotel room today to find the door unlocked and ajar. She walked in to discover a man working on her phone, screw driver in hand.

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The Kos And The System: "Blogfather" Markos Moulitsas On Digital-Era Activism And His New Book

Christian Avard | Posted 08.20.2008 | Home

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"The right understands that working for change is very methodical. It's their ability to subsume the movement into a common whole that's made them very powerful. You don't get that on the left."

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Pelosi Gets "Booked" & Confronts Her Own Past

Linda Milazzo | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics

For a woman who was once at the cutting edge of social progressivism, Nancy Pelosi has lost her way. She has strayed from her former social consciousness into the malaise of power.

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Sheehan Qualifies To Challenge Pelosi

AP | JUDY LIN | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics

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SAN FRANCISCO — Cindy Sheehan, an icon of the anti-war movement, has qualified to challenge House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her seat in Congress....

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Cindy Sheehan Makes It On Ballot To Challenge Nancy Pelosi!

Linda Milazzo | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

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Now comes the true test for the progressive movement. Will progressives who vehemently oppose Nancy Pelosi's failed Congressional leadership come forward to help Cindy Sheehan challenge Pelosi for her seat in San Francisco's 8th Congressional District? I know I will.

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A Call to Heroes: My "Sit-Down" With Vince Bugliosi

Linda Milazzo | Posted 06.23.2008 | Media

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Coming from Vincent Bugliosi, a man who has proven time and again that he has no fear, his threat it one that George Bush should take seriously. Vince will not back down.

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Mother's Day: Anti-War Celebration

Jeanine Molloff | Posted 05.06.2008 | Home

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Julia Ward-Howe established the holiday for a radical reason: to end the violence plaguing the post-Civil War South. This Sunday the mothers of the children dying in Iraq deserve more than a card.

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Dockworkers Shut Down West Coast Ports To Protest the War

JB Powell | Posted 05.02.2008 | Home

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The West Coast Dockworkers peace strike had a different edge, reminiscent of the days when the labor movement could and would affect this country's daily business to get its points across.

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Pelosi Hearts Bush!

Linda Milazzo | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

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Still shouldn't the war be more "personal" for Pelosi -- and her feelings for its creator reflect the dislike she feels toward his war?

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Body of War, Let the History Books Show...

Brad Friedman | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics

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Body of War should be seen by every American, left, right, center and other and should be mandatory viewing for every current and future Congressional representative.

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Who's Afraid of the Yellow Rose Peace Bus?

Dan DeWalt | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics

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Jim Goodenow has dedicated the last few years to working full time for peace. His "Yellow Rose Peace Bus" has been his home as he has traveled the country lending a hand to many notable peace and justice efforts.

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Sheehan Counting On Celeb Endorsements In Longshot Bid Against Pelosi

The Hill | Karissa Marcum | Posted 09.24.2007 | Home

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Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan is making celebrity endorsements a key facet of her long-shot bid to defeat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) next...

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Open Letter To Speaker Pelosi And Majority Leader Reid

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.10.2007 | Politics

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Either the polls are lying to me, or you guys are just ignoring the public and conspiring to prove that Democrats have no backbone whatsoever.

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